Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.
Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.
Whitish gray, like a lot of fish and bird meat. The pink comes from their natural diet, which they don’t have in captivity, so farms dye the meat artificially so it looks like wild-caught salmon
If the color of the meat turns you off, wait until you think about the fact that it’s a dead body
yfw that color actually comes from crustaceans they eat: 🤯
Carotenoids are produced by algae, plants and certain fungi.
Feeding fish higher-level animals in the food web (like crustaceans or fish that predate on crustaceans) concentrates the carotenoids and brings out more and more color in the fish, specifically red.
This is also the source of a flamingo’s colour. The debate if salmon are fishy flamingos or flamingos are feathery salmon has yet to be settled.
I thought Salmon were actually gray on the inside? Is this a farm raised versus wild thing?
Gray?? 🤢 Even the farm raised should be a light pink before it’s cooked.
Whitish gray, like a lot of fish and bird meat. The pink comes from their natural diet, which they don’t have in captivity, so farms dye the meat artificially so it looks like wild-caught salmon
If the color of the meat turns you off, wait until you think about the fact that it’s a dead body
I haven’t ate fish or any meat since the Bush administration, lol.
What did George Bush do that turned you off eating fish?
He incorrectly believed that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.
But peace was never an option. 🔪🐟
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Farm-raised salmon are usually pink. Wild caught salmon are usually bright red.